Jim Foley's reading list

Database Connection Constants (ONLINE SERVER) Jun˜22‘This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life’ by Stefanie Green, MD (2022)

|¦ set in Victoria BC, medical assistance in dying (MAiD), I'm not sure. ¦|

Apr˜22‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

|¦ "We can't imagine the suffering of people of the future, so not much gets done on their behalf …… Narcissism." ¦|

Mar˜22‘Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now’ by John Doerr (2021)

|¦ "Fight or Flight?… Flight is not an option; we cannot outrun global warming.
We're going to have to fight this one out, with every weapon we can muster"
-- contrary to "fairy tales of eternal economic growth" [Greta Thunberg]. ¦|

Feb˜22‘What Strange Paradise’ by Omar El Akkad (2021)

|¦ "And yet there's an emptiness, something missing." ¦|

Feb˜22‘The Nature of Canada’ by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn (2019)

|¦ "Diseases remind us that national boundaries are often of little significance for environmental forces" {'Nature We Cannot See' (2019)}
"Ecological sense does not come easily to moderns and postmoderns" {quote by forest scientist Stan Rowe in 'Advocates and Activists'} ¦|

Nov˜21‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (2021)

|¦ Conversation #6: 'Wrestling with Ghosts' ¦|

Nov˜21‘Forever Young: A Memoir’ by Hayley Mills (2021)

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Nov˜21‘Indian School Days’ by Basil H. Johnston (1988)

|¦ 'Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope.' ¦|

Aug˜21‘Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing - Part I: Foundations’ by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (2003)

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Apr˜21‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need’ by Bill Gates (2021)

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Apr˜21‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’ by Michael E. Mann (2021)

|¦ "the climate crisis" ¦|

Mar˜21‘Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson’ by Annye C Anderson and Preston Lauterbach (2020)

|¦ The life and afterlife of bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) as told by his nonagenarian stepsister. ¦|

Mar˜21‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama (2020)

|¦ A mighty fine book. ¦|

Feb˜21‘Becoming {Audiobook}’ by Michelle Obama (2018)

|¦ Michelle Obama's autobiography - read by her ¦|

Jan˜21‘To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest’ by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (2019)

|¦ biodiversity, “mother” trees, ... ¦|

Dec˜20‘The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz’ by Erik Larson (2020)

|¦ "On Winston Churchill's first day as the UK Prime Minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium." ¦|

Oct˜20‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham (2012)

|¦ A novel ¦|

Jul˜20‘The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change’ by Gleb Raygorodetsky (2017)

|¦ "What makes Indigenous communities uniquely valuable in the global quest for climate change solutions is that they are where the traditional practices & understanding of nature meet modern technology & scientific insights." ¦|

Apr˜20‘This Is All a Dream We Dreamed’ by Blair Jackson & David Gans (2015)

|¦ An oral history of the Grateful Dead ¦|

Feb˜20‘Year of the Rabbit’ by Tian Veasna (2019)

|¦ An intense graphic novel about a family living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Reign [1975-1979] ¦|

Nov˜19‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande (2014)

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Sep˜19‘Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)’ by Denise Donlon (2016)

|¦ Denise Donlon is a Canadian business executive, television producer, author, public speaker, host, and member of the Order of Canada. ¦|

Jun˜19‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ by Max Weber (1905)

|¦ A historical discussion, written in 1905, of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern Capitalism ¦|

May˜19‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson (2011)

|¦ Steve Jobs (Feb. 24 1955-Oct. 5 2011) ¦|

Feb˜19‘City in colour: rediscovered stories of Victoria's multicultural past’ by May Q. Wong (2018)

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Oct˜18‘Herbie Hancock: Possibilities’ by Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey (2014)

|¦ "I'd finally figured out how to turn my obstacle into an opportunity, which opened up a whole new world of possibility." ¦|

Oct˜18‘Been So Long: My Life and Music’ by Jorma Kaukonen (2018)

|¦ "Finns are a stoic lot." ¦|

Sep˜18‘Origin Story: A Big History of Everything’ by David Christian (2018)

|¦ "What will the Earth look like in two thousand years?" "Will human beings achieve a sustainable relationship with the biosphere?" ¦|

Aug˜18‘Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times’ by John Perry Barlow (2018)

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